A free TuneIn alternative — live radio with no account
Claims about TuneIn checked on . Sources are linked at the bottom.
TuneIn is the best-known internet radio app, and for live sport it is genuinely hard to beat. If you came here looking for something cheaper, or something that does not ask you to make an account before you can listen, this page lays out the differences as plainly as we can — including the ones that do not favour us.
What TuneIn costs
As of 11 September 2026, TuneIn’s own pricing page lists Premium at $9.99/month or $79.99/year, after a 7-day free trial, alongside a free tier at $0.00/month. Premium is built around commercial-free news, live NHL and college sport, audiobooks, and — in TuneIn’s own words — “Less Ads Across All Stations”.
What we charge, and what the free tier is
Every station on OnlineRadio plays for free, in the browser, without an account. Premium is $4.99/month or $49.99/year with a 14-day trial, and it removes ads, lifts the favourites limit, and adds offline podcast episodes. The pricing page shows the price in your own currency, and it is published on the web rather than only inside an app.
Side by side
| TuneIn | OnlineRadio | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes, $0.00/month, with ads on stations | Yes — every station, in the browser, no account |
| Paid tier | $9.99/month or $79.99/year, 7-day trial | $4.99/month or $49.99/year, 14-day trial |
| Stations claimed | 100,000 global radio stations and podcasts | About 62,000 stations, from 177+ countries |
| Live sport | Every NHL game, college football and basketball | None — only whatever a station broadcasts |
| Audiobooks | Over 100,000, included with Premium | None. Podcasts only |
| Price published on the web | Yes | Yes |
What TuneIn does better
- TuneIn’s catalogue is larger. They claim 100,000 stations and podcasts; we have roughly 62,000 stations. If the station you want is obscure, they are the better bet.
- TuneIn has live sports rights — every NHL game without blackouts, plus college football and basketball. We have none, and we are not going to. If you are here for sport, TuneIn is the right product.
- TuneIn Premium includes over 100,000 audiobooks. We do not offer audiobooks at all.
- TuneIn is on far more hardware than we are — their own pages promote Alexa, and their reach across dashboards, speakers and TVs is a decade ahead of ours. We could not verify the full device list from their site (the page is script-rendered), so this is stated as a direction, not a count.